We meet every Sunday at 10am on the first Sunday of the month, and 10:30am on the remaining Sundays.
We meet in the Bethany Room at High Street
Methodist Church, Witney. Postcode is OX28 6HG.
Our children's group arrangements are currently on hold, as we have no children participating regularly at present, but with advance notice, we can always accommodate children and are happy to do so.

Friday, 22 December 2017

We will be holding our normal Sunday meeting on 24 December, at 10.30. There will not be a meeting for worship on Christmas Day, and we will meet again on Sunday 31 December.
Witney Friends send loving greetings to all those who have worshipped and worked with us during the course of 2017, with particular thanks to the Methodist Church for its hospitality.

Monday, 4 December 2017

We enjoyed another shared lunch on 3 December, with the pleasure of music and carol singing, and the delightful company of 10-month-old Ada! Thanks to Yvette, Lesley and Keith for the ukelele playing and carols accompaniment, and to everyone for delicious food and warm company.

This pattern
accommodates disruptions due to Easter, bank holidays and YMG, amongst other
factors.

38/17 Use of
legacy from Sue Bowers

We
have received information on various options, including a day visit to
Hawkswood, a day visit to Friends House, a ‘song and silence’ event tutored by
Mark Russ from Woodbrooke on Saturday 14 April, and a Sunday gathering at
Charney Manor.

We
agree to email Friends in this meeting with the two latter options, to ask for
preferences, and to bring this matter back to a later meeting for decision. We
wish to invite Friends from Charlbury and Burford to join us, and ask the
clerks to contact them with these possibilities.

39/17 Treasurer’s
report and 2018 budget

a)Finances 2017:
income has remained steady. We anticipate a surplus of £2181, due to low
expenditure and surplus reserves brought forward from 2016.

b)Donations 2017:
we agree the following donations

·BYM - £300

·Young Friends General Meeting - £300

·Quaker Council for European Affairs -
£200

·Quaker Homeless Action - £200

·Base 33 - £225

·Citizens Advice Bureau Witney - £200

·Rohingya appeal (via Disasters Relief
Committee) - £1500

We approve the reserving
of £1000 to support a new CTiW initiative on homelessness in Witney, and ask
representatives to a forthcoming meeting on this matter to report back to us.

c)2018 budget:
our treasurer has spoken to the proposed budget. We approve the budget, including
an increase of £50 in our annual rent for the Bethany Room, to represent an
inflationary increase for 2018.

40/17 Nominations January 2018 – December 2020

We
receive the report from our Nominations Group on recommendations for
appointments for the triennium 2018-2020. We appoint the Friends named below
accordingly: